As founder of Microsoft, Mr. All the role of peace broker – a contrast to his harder charging co-founder, Bill Gates. After leaving the company in the early 80’s, he helped turn Seattle into a cultural destination and became owner of Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers.

And we also note the death of another kind of revolutionary: Raye Montague, who faced racism and sexism to become the first person to design a navy ship with a computer program. Last year, in a snap to the best-selling book and Oscar-nominated film about black female mathematicians on NASA, Navy honored her as her own “hidden figure”.